Terin
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Terin has been given to 524 babies in the U.S. since 1979. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 31 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 65% girls, 35% boys all-time.
Babies named Terin, 2014
1 in 741,000
Terin over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Terin over time
In 2014, Terin went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Terin?
Terin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 741,000
- 5 of 3,706,812 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 357,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,874 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Terin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Terin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Terins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Terin was born before 1989 — so the typical Terin is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 49.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 48.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 343
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 49.6% of all recorded uses (170).
Is Terin rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1982 (31)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.3% average annual change
Spellings of Terin
Terin is not the most common spelling — Erin is, with 31.4% against Terin's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Terin is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Terin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Terin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Terin is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Terin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Terin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Terin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Terin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Terin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.